(Newser)  Karl Rove has evaluated President Obama's use of executive authority, particularly as it relates to his delayed deportation of some illegal immigrants, and he has found it more egregious than that of a couple of guys named George. Referring to his old boss, Rove says the Bush White House dismissed the notion that the president could legally exempt a "class of individuals" from immigration law. "The lawyers came back and said you have the ability to exempt individuals but no ability to exempt a class," he said today on Fox News, as per Politico. "And yet this president has exempted a class of people from enforcement of immigration laws." Which leads Rove to compare Obama to another George in history: "This is imperial power. This is George the Third. This is some monarch [saying]: I am the law.'"

This coming from the man who orchestrated the election of Obama by moving GW so far to the center that the country thought, “What the heck! GW’s administration is so close being democrat we may as well elect one!”

Well Karl what has the party that pays your bills done about it lately? At least they Tea Party you seem to hate so much has made life difficult for him on Obamacare, immigration, bailouts, taxes etc .

Yeah, Rove fights the conservatives more than he does the Nobama. And how Rove and Barbour thought that alienating perhaps a third of the GOP base would help win the senate boggles the mind with their stupidity.

For example, regarding so-called federal government power to regulate immigration, I don't think that we'll ever hear Rove note that the word immigration doesn't appear in the Constitution and that Thomas Jefferson had clarified, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration.

4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people, the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the  day of July, 1798, intituled An Act concerning aliens, which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added]. Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

So if Rove wants the federal government to have the constitutional authority to regulate immigration then he needs to do the following. He needs to encourage Congress to propose an immigration amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states choose to ratify Rove's amendement then Congress will have the express constitutional authority that it needs to regulate immigration and Rove will be a hero.

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